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Excerpt from Herbert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and of His ArtFormal and elaborate biographies Of actors are apt to be not the most inspiring kind Of literature._ When Herbert Tree died, it seemed to those who knew him best that Of such a biography he would not have cared to be the subject. There was, however, a clear need that one who had so distinguished himself in his art, and had been in himself so interesting a Character and so u...

Excerpt from More From inilluminable catacombs - to wit, files of the Saturday Review, the Daily Mail, the Outlook, Tomorrow, and the Musician, to whose editors I am indebted for much courtesy - I have rescued these few creatures of my fancy, deeming them perhaps worthy of a brighter haven. There was a host of others, which Sentiment urged me to rescue also. But I have forborne. Nor have I admitted to this haven any of these little creatures ...

Excerpt from Seven Men If Rothenstein had not been there, I should have revered Soames. Even as it was, I respected him. And I was very near indeed to reverence when he said he had another book coming out soon. I asked if I might ask what kind of book it was to be. My poems, ' he answered. Rothenstein asked if this was to be the title of the book. The poet meditated on this suggestion, but said he rather thought of giving the book no title a...

Excerpt from And Even Now I ofier here some of the essays that I have written in the course of the past ten years. While I was collecting them and (quite patiently) reading them again, I found that a few of them were in direct reference to the moments at which they were severally composed. It was clear that these must have their dates afiixed to them. And for sake of uniformity I have dated all the others, and, doing so, have thought I need n...

Excerpt from The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale for Tired MenDisapproved of him so strongly that, whenever he entered a room where they happened to be, they would make straight for the door and watch him very severely through the key-hole. Every morning when he strolled up Piccadilly they crossed over to the other side in a com pact body, leaving him to the companionship of his bad companions on that which is.About the PublisherForgotten Books ...

Excerpt from Zuleika Dobson: Or an Oxford Love StoryAt the door of the first-class waiting-room, aloof and venerable, stood the Warden of Judas. An ebon pillar of tradition seemed he, in his garb of old-fashioned cleric. Aloft, between the wide brim of his silk hat and the white extent of his shirt-front, appeared those eyes which hawks, that nose which eagles, had often envied. He supported his years on an ebon stick. He alone was worthy of t...

Excerpt from A Defence of Cosmetics Nay, but it is useless to protest. Artifice must queen it once more in the town, and so, if there be any whose hearts chafe at her return, let them not say, "We have come into evil times, " and be all for resistance, reformation, or angry cavilling. For did the king's sceptre send the sea retrograde, or the wand of the sorcerer avail to turn the sun from its old course? And what man or what number of men ev...

Yesterday I found in a cupboard an old, small, battered portmanteau which, by the initials on it, I recognised as my own property. The lock appeared to have been forced. I dimly remembered having forced it myself, with a poker, in my hot youth, after some

Excerpt from Yet AgainIF I were seeing over a house, and found in every room an iron cage let into the wall, and were told by the caretaker that these cages were for me to keep lions in, I think I should Open my eyes rather wide. Yet nothing seems to me more natural than a fire in the grate.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproductio...

Excerpt from A Christmas Garland Pasted the windows of his soul with staring appeals, minute descriptions, promises that knew no bounds. But the actual recovery of the article - the business of drawing and crossing the cheque, blotched though this were with tears of joy - had blankly appeared to him rather in the light of a sacrilege, casting, he sometimes felt, a palpable chill on the fervour of the next quest. It was just this fervour that ...

Caricatures of twenty-five gentlemen is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature.Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly...

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